I bought three phones from verizon this weekend.I was told that I qualified for '$50 rebates on each as long as I sent postmarked, dated rebate certificates, receipts, cutout serial card with barcode from box and mailed each in a separate envelope by a given date. Rebates at Apple can be processed online in about a minute. verizon requires an effort comparable to what we used to do in the back in the sixties when cereal boxes would yield prizes. It is just another series of hurdles to prevent honoring the rebates. Last time we did this we got debit cards that turned out to be blank!